You`ll Be Back

Colour, 35 mm
Spain, Mexico, 2002, 100 min
Section: Catalan Films

Synopsis

Ignacio hasn’t seen his older brother Carlos in more than six years, but one night he bumps into him in a local bar. Carlos spurned the family nest. A disobedient son, he broke all bonds with his wealthy parents, and now he’s in serious trouble: he is drowning in gambling debts and his fiancée Marta has just thrown him out on the street. Ignacio offers to help. Although in just five days he’ll be leaving for Los Angeles to finish studies in architecture, there is enough time for the brothers to get mixed up in more trouble. Carlos quickly introduces his younger brother to a world of risk and confrontation. The director said about the film You’ll Be Back: “The decision to shoot nearly all the film using a hand-held camera had a lot to do with the freedom we wanted to give to the actors and the refusal to restrict their movements. At the beginning of many takes, we did not know how the scene was going to develop, or even its length or where the camera was going to go. The idea was to approach every take as a first take, to escape from the danger of perfectionism at the cost of repetition and the sacrifice of spontaneity.” 

About the director

Antonio Chavarrías (b. 1956, Barcelona) began his career as an independent screenwriter and director for television. In 1986 he produced Jesús Garay’s Pasión lejana. Two years later he debuted as a director of features with Una sombra en el jardín (1988). In 1990 he founded Oberon Cinematográfica, the company which produced Aro Tolbukhin: In the Mind of a Killer (Aro Tolbukhin: En la mente del asesino), screened at the 38th Karlovy Vary IFF. Filmography as a director: Manila (1991), El hundimiento del Titanic (1992), Susanna (1995), You’ll Be Back (Volverás, 2003). For television he has shot episodes for various series, and the made-for-TV movie Un caso para dos (1997). In 2002-03 Chavarrías was the first vice-president of the Spanish Film and Television Academy.